Sentences with phrase «voted against a motion»

Also unsurprisingly, Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City President Esther George, dissenter - in - chief at the bank, voted against the motion to stay the course, citing «economic and financial imbalances,» as well as, further down the road, «an increase in long - term inflation expectations» as reasons for concern.

The divided PC government caucus also missed an opportunity to send a clear message that they embrace 21st century values by singling out the opposition Wildrose as the only party to unanimously vote against the motion — and remind Albertans of the infamous Lake of Fire.

Conservative MP Cathy McLeod says she'll vote against Motion 312.

Some 53 delegates voted against the motion.1

12:24 - Delegates have overwhelmingly voted against a motion that would insist on the government being fairer to the poor when cutting the deficit.

Rather, she voted against the motion of no confidence in Corbyn's leadership.

On the same day, she slow hand clapped Theresa May as the home secretary headed into the lobby to vote against a motion aimed at closing the gender pay gap.

Mr Hughes explained that the Liberal Democrats were not prepared to vote against the motion because Mr Cameron's decision has already been taken.

Indeed, I hear the whips backed off trying to bring everyone home as they knew many would simply have voted against the motion anyway.

A motion by the Finance Minister, Seth Terkper, asking for the approval lost by one vote, after 67 MPs voted against the motion, whilst 66 voted in favour of it.

Just two Lib Dems voted against the motion at the party's spring conference in York that would also establish a commission of experts to review all the evidence highlighted in the National Security Agency files leaked by the whistleblower Edward Snowden.

Mr Hain, who is poised to vote against the motion when Parliament meets tomorrow if he returns from a foreign trip in time, said: «The Prime Minister is asking the nation to back him on a dangerous strike when nobody knows what the consequences will be.

On Monday 14th July 2014, the Majority in Parliament voted against a Motion requesting Parliament to investigate events surrounding Ghana's football fiasco in Brazil.

Because of the statutory time constraints and the directives in the law, a vote against the motion to proceed is a vote to direct the Secretary of Energy to cease all further work at Yucca Mountain and close the office until Congress decides otherwise.

Ms Morgan was one of 175 MPs from across the political spectrum who voted against the motion for gay marriage.

Our task tonight is to persuade you that global warming is indeed a crisis in exactly that precise sense so you should vote against the motion.

Specifically, the attending epidemiologists voted against a motion proposed in an Oxford - style debate that «risk factor» epidemiology is placing the field of epidemiology at risk of losing its credibility.

The merits of the project had become a party political issue in the imminent local election and despite «the formidable arguments on both sides, not a single member of the coalition either abstained or voted against the motion».

«We must not trample on the rights of one group of society to satisfy the rights of another,» added bencher Claude Richmond, who also voted against the motion to deny TWU accreditation.

This was revealed on the same day (yesterday) that MPs voted against a motion brought by Labour that sought to reverse criminal legal aid reforms.

Not exact matches

Benoit and others said they had never been told how to vote in committees and on the floor but acknowledged there were some «genuine problems,» citing the committee that deemed Conservative MP Mark Warawa's motion against gender selection abortion non-votable.

Lagardere shareholders reject activist demandsShareholders in Lagardere SCA (MMB.FR) voted Thursday against motions proposed by activist investor Amber Capital to change the group's corporate governance.

Nineteen Liberal, New Democrat, and Progressive Conservative MLAs voted in favour of the motion, but it failed after 31 PC and Wildrose MLAs stood up and voted against it.

«That this House expresses profound concern that, despite voting 279 in favour and none against the motion calling on the Government to refer genocidal atrocities of Daesh to the United Nations Security Council on 14 April 2016, still, no such referral has been made; recalls the words of the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs in an article in the Telegraph on 27 March 2016, Daesh are engaged in what can only be called genocide of the poor Yazidis, though for some baffling reason the Foreign Office still hesitates to use the term genocide; and calls on the Government to ensure that the unanimous will of Parliament is implemented with urgency.»

Charlotte Wright, professor of community child health at the University of Glasgow and one of the members campaigning for the change in the policy, told The BMJ that she had no objection to the college surveying its members given that the numbers who voted at the annual general meeting were so small — 66 delegates supported the motion and 53 were against it.

I asked Boris, tongue in cheek, if he voted with the Government against Labour's tax credits motion.

Bizarrely, after her onslaught she then trooped into the No lobby and voted against Labour's motion.

Yet it will also vote against the coalition on the programme motion, setting up the prospect of a parliamentary bullfight that most analysts believe will make the coalition's life hell.

The reason for this is that there are many more liberal parties in the UK Parliament than Conservative, and chances are that during motions that have to carry in parliament that need a majority conservatives will have a hard time passing laws if the Liberal Democrats, Green Party, SNP and Labour all vote against the Tories» motions.

It's that somebody on the winning side of the cloture vote — in this case, the side voting against cloture — has to file a «motion to reconsider» if the matter is to be taken up again.

The opposition will whip its MPs through the «aye» lobby when it comes to the general second reading vote, but vote against the programme motion which seeks to restrict the amount of time the bill will be debated for.

[19] In April 2007, Lewisham Council voted 28 — 24 against a motion calling for consultation over the issue.

Ensign voted against the cloture vote on the motion to proceed to the defense authorization bill in September.

The vast majority of Tories backed the motion — only seven voted against, and seven abstained — and the Democratic Unionists and the Liberal Democrats also supported it.

7.45 pm Update: We have our first real rebel estimate - the number of those Conservative MPs who voted against the programme motion.

They have said they would not, but they have not, to my knowledge, said that they would always vote against a Tory led administration in a confidence motion.

The former Labour leader has announced he will vote against the government's motion after listening to this afternoon's ongoing debate in the House of Commons.

Last night's meeting of local party members voted 108 - 84 against a motion which pointed out the demonstration was also attended by some Conservative and DUP MPs, as well as Tory peer Norman Tebbit.

The 66 Labour MPs who voted with the Government on the main motion to support «taking military action, specifically airstrikes, exclusively against ISIL in Syria» represented well under a third of the 231 current Labour members of Parliament.

Jeremy Corbyn has granted his MPs a free vote on on whether the UK should join airstrikes against Isil targets in the country when the motion comes before the Commons tomorrow.

After discussion, the motion passed by a vote of 21 in favor, 4 against and two abstentions.

Only 32 MPs need to vote against the government to wipe out its majority of 63, but canvassing carried out by the leftwing organisation Compass indicates that more than 100 Labour MPs will send a warning to ministers when they sign an early day motion opposing the move to part - privatise the Post Office when parliament returns on 12 January.

I noticed far more speakers against reform of the Lords than for - perhaps because pro-reform Tories knew, the programme motion having been withdrawn, that they would win the Second Reading vote easily (thanks to Labour votes).

The comment suggests Clegg has reason to fear the bill will run into trouble as rebels prepare to join Labour in voting against the «programme motion» — the timetable motion limiting the amount of time MPs can spend debating the bill as it goes through its remaining stages in the Commons.

Delegates at the British Medical Association's (BMA) annual conference backed the motion against Jeremy Hunt so strongly there was no need to even hold a vote.

One Liberal Democrat from East Anglia, the Cambridge MP Julian Huppert, also voted against the coalition motion.

The Lib Dems are hoping that some pro-reform Labour MPs will abstain on the programme motion, instead of following the Labour whip and voting against.

The MPs indicate that they will vote against the bill's timetable motion and, with Labour also voting against it, this means the government is on course for defeat in the vote tomorrow night.

Graham Allen, a Labour MP, has hinted that he will defy Ed Miliband's order to vote against the Lords reform bill timetable motion.

And, as the BBC's Norman Smith reports, the Tory whips are encouraging their rebels to vote against the second reading if they have to, but not the timetable motion.